§ 42. Sir A. MARKHAMasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing that E. Gerbel Strover, the late manager of the British Abrasive Wheel Company, Sheffield, has recently been interned, he will now notify the Admiralty and the War Office that this company is now entirely under British control?
§ Mr. PRETYMANI am afraid I cannot undertake to notify other Departments of the internment of an alien enemy manager of a business. Probably any company so situated would be willing and able to make such a notification on its own behalf and in its own interest.
§ Sir A. MARKHAMDoes not the right hon. Gentleman know that I have asked numerous questions for the purpose of getting this company struck off and you have now got rid of the manager?
§ Mr. PRETYMANThis company had only a minority of Germans interested in it, and always the majority were British. We have now got rid of the German manager.